Microsoft's Burgum takes partner heat
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft's channel partners here grilled Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) chieftain Doug Burgum more pointedly than did lawyers in the Oracle/PeopleSoft antitrust trial. Burgum kicked off the opening day of Microsoft's annual worldwide partner conference with an open, hour-and-a-half question and answer session. And questioners were not shy about expressing their concerns about Microsoft's partner-program directions involving MBS.
A number of partners voiced publicly their disenchantment with Microsoft's efforts over the past year to bring MBS under the auspices of its "classic" partner program.